pilaster
A shallow pier or rectangular form projecting from a wall and, in classical architecture, conforming to one of the Orders and carrying an entablature. See engaged (column).
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The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2 ed.)
... In classical buildings a free-standing column , as in a portico, should be paired on the wall behind it with a pilaster, also called a respond. Pilasters are often used independently to organize a façade into an orderly...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
...-face : longest exposed surface of a pilaster, parallel to the wall behind; pilaster-mass : 1. pier to which a pilaster is attached; 2. pier or mass of wall with impost mouldings ; 3. as pilaster-strip but more massive; pilaster-side : exposed part of a pilaster at 90° to the wall to which it is attached; pilaster-strip : lesene or piedroit which, unlike an anta or pilaster, has no base or capital, has no entasis , and is not a true pilaster: it is a feature of Anglo-Saxon work, and with the plinths and corbel -table, frames the...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
... A shallow pier or rectangular form projecting from a wall and, in classical architecture, conforming to one of the Orders and carrying an entablature . See engaged (column)...
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Anthony Quiney
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
... A flat projection with the form of a column in relief, used to decorate and articulate a wall or pier, and, when lacking a base and capital, called a pilaster strip or lesene. Essentially non-structural, a pilaster has a small buttressing and supporting effect, particularly when acting as a respond opposite a column whose entablature carries over to it. In classical architecture a pilaster is subject to the same rules as govern a column. The Greeks did not use pilasters, seeing columns as structural and so instead attaching half or three-quarter columns...
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William Loerke
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
... , an engaged pier articulated into base, shaft, and capital, or an imitation of such a pier created by imposing decorative features of base, shaft, and capital upon a properly proportioned projection of a wall. Pilasters often mark the ends of open colonnades set between piers (Mainstone, Hagia Sophia , pls. 46, 48, 55) as well as the flanks of portals. As at the palace of Tekfur Saray in Constantinople they articulated façades and were more substantial members than the pilaster strips used, for example, on the Church of the Virgin at Studenica ....
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... A rectangular pier projecting from a wall. Decorative rather than structural, a pilaster usually consists of a base, shaft, and capital and is not to be confused with an engaged column. Jelena Bogdanović S. Ćurčić , ‘Articulation of Church Façades during the First Half of the 14th Century’, in L’art byzantin au début du XIV siècle (1978), 17–27. R. Krautheimer , Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture ( 4 1986),...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Co] 1 Column or pillar incorporated into a wall. 2 In pottery kilns, integral short piers, buttresses, or column‐like projections of varying shape, protruding from the kiln wall on the inside of the combustion chamber, and usually intended to support the raised oven floor of the...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... strip ( lesene , piedroit ) Usually, an only slightly projected *pilaster , with no base or capital. Pilaster strip s are often set on plinths, connected to each other with blind *arches . See also building and construction ; corbel . Jelena Bogdanović K. J. Conant , Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200 ( 5 1993). ‘Pilaster strip’, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ( 2...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... XVI. — F. pilastre — It. pilastro , medL. pīlastrum , f. L. pīla pillar, PILE 2 ; see -ASTER...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • attar , batter, bespatter, chatter, clatter, flatter, hatter, Kenyatta, latter, matamata, matter, natter, patter, platter, ratter, regatta, satyr, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, splatter, yatter • abstractor , actor, attractor, compactor, contractor, enactor, exactor, extractor, factor, infractor, protractor, redactor, refractor, tractor, transactor • Atlanta , banter, canter, infanta, levanter, manta, ranter, Santa, tam-o'-shanter • adaptor , captor, chapter, raptor • Antofagasta , aster, Astor, canasta, Jocasta, oleaster, pasta,...
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